Prater Airlifted After Friday Morning Crash

October 6, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

A 35-year-old Sparta man was airlifted after a pickup truck crash Friday morning on Highway 70 east.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Danny Prater was traveling east in a 2014 GMC Sierra pickup truck when he failed to negotiate a curve and went off the right side of the road into the woods and struck a tree. The truck overturned and came to rest on its passenger side.

Trapped in the truck, Prater was helped from the vehicle by members of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department’s Rescue Team and DeKalb EMS. He was then transported to the hospital and airlifted to Erlanger in Chattanooga.

The crash was investigated by Trooper Brent Collier with assistance from Trooper Bobby Johnson.

October 6, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

Tiger Talk Times2!

DCHS Tiger fans will get a double dose of Tiger Talk on WJLE tonight (Friday).

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In a special edition program at a special time, 6:05 p.m. WJLE will turn the spotlight on the Region Champs and State Tournament Bound DCHS Lady Tiger Golf Team and DCHS Tiger Football Coach Steve Trapp will make his debut as host of Tiger Talk interviewing DCHS Golf Coach John Pryor and Lady Tiger Golfers Alison Poss, Emily Anderson, and Chloe Boyd.

The Lady Tigers will compete against seven other schools in the State Tournament in Sevierville on Monday and Tuesday.

Following this program, WJLE will air the regular weekly Tiger Talk Football Program featuring host John Pryor interviewing Coach Steve Trapp and Assistant Coaches Luke Green, Eli Cross, Lucas Phillips, and Cole Parsley.

It’s Senior Night for the DCHS Tiger football team tonight (Friday) as the Cumberland County Jets come calling. The Tigers are 3-4 overall and 1-2 in the Region. Cumberland County is 2-5 and 0-4 in Region play.

DeKalb County will try to rebound from another disappointing loss last week to Macon County 32-20.

“I thought our guys played physical and fast but at the end of the night we still didn’t execute the way we needed to in some critical moments and some penalties hurt us. It was another one of those games where we were in it and had a shot, but we didn’t do enough things correctly throughout the game to come out victorious,” said Coach Steve Trapp.

The Tigers are in need of a win to keep their post season hopes alive.

“The way we look at it essentially, we are already in the playoffs. That is the mindset we must have and hopefully our guys will buy into it because if we don’t take care of business here tonight then we may be putting up our equipment the Monday after the last game and that’s not we want to do. We don’t want this senior group to have that on their legacy, but they have to take care of business tonight and if they do it will essentially set up a play-in game between us and White County in two weeks. The winner of that game will probably have a four seed in the playoffs and then we will finish up the year in three weeks against Upperman and give them everything we have. Its exciting but at the same time our guys have to understand that its nitty gritty now and they are not guaranteed post season play unless they take care of business,” said Coach Trapp.

WJLE’s Pre-Game shows begin with “Coach to Coach” at a special time 4:30 p.m. featuring former UT assistant coach Doug Matthews with Tennessee Titans Radio Broadcaster Dave McGinnis and broadcaster Larry Stone talking Tennessee and SEC football.

“Coach to Coach” is followed by “Murphy’s Matchups at a special time 5:30 p.m., a look at Tennessee High School Football from Murphy Fair with commentary on games and coaches’ interviews.

The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and WJLE will have LIVE coverage with the Voice of the Tigers John Pryor and Luke Willoughby on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the LIVE stream at www.wjle.com.

Here’s how the Region race is taking shape after seven weeks into the season. The top four teams at the end of the year earn a state play-off berth.

Upperman: 7-0: Overall, 4-0-Region

Stone Memorial: 6-1 Overall, 4-0 Region

Macon County: 7-1 Overall, 4-1 Region

DeKalb County: 3-4 Overall, 1-2 Region

White County: 3-4, 1-3 Region

Livingston Academy:2-6 Overall, 0-4 Region

Cumberland County: 2-5 Overall, 0-4 Region

October 5, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

It’ll soon be election time again!

The first election cycle in 2024 will be the DeKalb County Democratic and Republican Primaries to select nominees for the offices of Assessor of Property, Constable (districts 1-7), and Board of Education (5th & 6th) districts along with the newly created position of criminal court judge-Part III in the 13th judicial district. The primaries will be held on Tuesday, March 5th in conjunction with the Tennessee Presidential Preference Primary.

Candidates for the county primaries may begin picking up qualifying petitions from the DeKalb County Election Commission office Monday, October 16, 2023 and the qualifying deadline is Thursday, December 14 at 12 noon. The voter registration deadline for the March 5th primaries is February 5 and the early voting period will be Wednesday, February 14 through Tuesday, February 27. The Absentee ballot request deadline is Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

Independents wishing to run for Assessor of Property or Constable (districts 1-7), Board of Education (5th & 6th ) districts, or for criminal court judge-Part III in the August 2024 County General Elections must also qualify by noon on Thursday, December 14 at 12 noon.

Party nominees and independents for these offices will run in the DeKalb County General Election on Thursday, August 1, 2024 and those elected will take office September 1, 2024.

The incumbents in these offices are Assessor of Property Shannon Cantrell and Constables- 1st District: Waylon Kyle, 2nd District: Darrell Johnson, 3rd District: Travis Bryant, 4th District: Lane Ball, 5th District: Mark Milam, 6th District: Jason Brown, and 7th District: Johnny King.

The school board seats up for election in 2024 are currently held by Jamie Cripps in the 5th district and Jason Miller in the 6th district.

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